Although his brother was killed by ISIS, RR's Office Coordinator stressed in an interview with the Manchester Evening News that the Assad regime remains the main problem in Syria. He described his harrowing experience in fleeing Syria and coming to the UK, saying that '[m]aybe if I’d known this journey, I wouldn’t have left Syria'.
Yasser Aljassem, Rethink Rebuild Society's Office Coordinator, describes his dangerous journey to the UK, claiming that it is not anything that a woman or a child, or any human for that matter, should have to experience. Yasser longs to be reunited with his wife and two daughters after he is (hopefully) granted asylum by the Home Office.
A powerful article published on 4 September by Manchester Evening News highlights that City Councils across Greater Manchester are willing to do their part to accept more Syrian refugees. Rethink Rebuild Society was featured in this article, and our message was put forward very loudly that the UK must act to bring an end to the crisis in Syria: Assad must go.
In an interview on BBC Breakfast, Rethink Rebuild Society's Advocacy & Policy Coordinator made the case that the UK's primary responsibility should be to take action with other countries to end the conflict in Syria, and that until this happens, it should shoulder its responsibility to accept more Syrian refugees.
In an article in the Mancunian Matters, Rethink Rebuild Society said that Cameron’s pledge to take in more Syrian refugees is 'too little too late'. We hope that the UK can step up on European sphere and take in more Syrian refugees and, more importantly, take action to end the crisis in Syria.
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